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- - - - The Staff
- - - - The Dead
        
        Gabriel is constantly torn between the more accessible English world and the Irish world. There are Irish songs being played, and he is confronted by Miss Ivors for working for an English paper instead of an Irish one. As Britain was an occupying state on Ireland, the worlds are at odds on the same soil because for one to prevail, the other must end.
        
        "World" Ending
  - - - Trees
    - - Action/Inaction
- - - - Paranoia: In the Man of the Crowd, the narrator stalks a man through the crowd and creates in his head all the possible evil deeds the man is up to, but without any evidence, it can all be interpreted as hearsay and what the narrator wants to believe. The same is true for the governess in The Turn of the Screw. All of the instances of paranormal activity revolving around the ghosts of Jessel and Quint are circumstantial and unreliable as it is all told from her point of view.
- - - - Flowers
- - - - Time
- - - - At Nanny's house, there was a blossoming pear tree that Janie links to her sexual awakening. The mix of the sensual and sensory make her come to the realization: "So this is marriage."
      - TEWWG explores Janie's relationship with sex and romance. She was shamed for kissing a man over a fence as a young woman which forced her into a loveless, passionless marriage. She explores her sexuality with Jody and Tea Cake in order to learn about who she is and what she likes.
      - Janie's first two husbands disappoint her. Killicks forces her to work, Jody forces her to stay silent. Both men work to oppress her by treating her as an object (either a mule or a trophy) rather than her own person. She finally finds fulfillment with Tea Cake, but ultimately loses him to death. But, she comes out of it as an emancipated woman.
- - - - Cultural Preservation
        
        "Let America Be America Again" and Easter 1916 explore themes of nationalism and how to preserve and fight for a country that doesn't really exist. However, both call upon the reader and inspire revolutionary feelings to act and fight, even if you're only fighting for an idea.
- - - - The Sound and the4 Fury shows how the Southern family structure is failing in the modern world because it's framed around honor. Caddy dishonor's the family and is forced to leave; Quentin is in disbelief that his idea of honor is a lie and ultimately kills himself. Benjy's only source of comfort and stability was Caddy, but with her gone, no one is willing to care for him. And Jason is so obsessed with money for the sake of looking well, not for actually providing for his family. However, Diley, the black cook to this white family, is the only one who is stepping up to care for the household and keep it running. It shows how minority groups and working class people are what keeps the system running, but they will survive once it implodes because they have no deluded themselves with this idea of honor.
        
        Family
      - Benjy
        
        Benjy has no conception of time. His narrative jumps between present and past with no distinguishing features. This represents how he catalogues based on feeling and thought rather than chronological order.
        
        Benjy thrives off of repetition and routine. At the end of the novel when the carriage goes an unexpected way, he bursts into tears. He also repeats words and sounds in his mind, most notable being the word "caddie" being repeated in his inner monologue as it sounds like his sister's name "Caddy."
        
        Repetition
      - Quentin
        
        Quentin fears the passage of time. He is surrounded by clocks but seaks to destroy them. Time to him means deterioration, morally and culturally.
      - Caddy
        
        Caddy climbs a tree as a child and exposes her dirty underwear to her brothers. This is seen as a sign of her future promiscuity and how it will forever "stain" the Compson line in the eyes of the brothers.
        
        Caddy is sexually promiscuous, becoming pregnant out of wedlock, earning the ire of the Compsons who shamed her. This leads to her leaving the Compson household. However, her removal from the Compson household and the narrative saves her from the witnessing the family topple first hand.
        
        Sexual Freedom
      - The Compsons represent the Old South and their family structure and moral beliefs reflect that, but as times change, they find themselves unable to replicate that same culture when the world is proven to be contradictory and more complicated than their structures. Being confronted with this truth, that his worldview is fabricated, drives Quentin to take his own life.
    - - The Parental Servant: Disley is the cook for the Compsons, but she also acts in a parental role to Miss Quentin and Benjy when no one else will. This is similar to how the unnamed governess in TotS assumes parental status over Miles and Flora.
- - - - Literary Devices
        
        Orange
      - Yellow